He heard another door, and voices, and quick footsteps again, coming
his way, and he was waiting eagerly, half on his elbow, when into his
room came Nepapinas and Carmin Fanchet. And again he saw the glory of
something in the woman's face.
His eyes must have burned strangely as he stared at her, but it did not
change that light in her own, and her hands were wonderfully gentle as
she helped Nepapinas raise him so that he was sitting up straight, with
pillows at his back.
"It doesn't hurt so much now, does it?" she asked, her voice low with a
mothering tenderness.